Games Like Vortex: The Gateway

Vortex: The Gateway

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!

★ THE FOREST ★ RADIATION ISLAND ★ OUTBREAK ISLAND: PENDULUM ★ THE INFECTED ★ DESERT SKIES ★ ANIMALLICA ★ SUBNAUTICA: BELOW ZERO ★ MIASMATA ★ HOW TO SURVIVE: THIRD PERSON STANDALONE ★ MIST SURVIVAL ★ WRONGWORLD ★ ALCHEMIST'S AWAKENING ★ WE ♥ IT 
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The Forest

96% 👍 OF 683K
About This Game

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …get knocked out, dragged through the forest, and wake up trapped in a cave you have to escape.
  • …watch cannibals scout your camp, retreat to call reinforcements, and come back as a coordinated raiding party.
  • …fight off a base siege where mutants smash your walls and one rips up a whole tree to use as a weapon.
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Radiation Island

81% 👍 OF 642
About This Game

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Hunt and Forage
  • …Raid Zombie Compounds
  • …Craft Survival Gear
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Outbreak Island: Pendulum

61% 👍 OF 652
About This Game

Mysterious island, crashed plane, underground complex, classified military research. Survive in a new atmospheric sandbox thriller and uncover the terrible secret of the disaster.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Photograph Clues
  • …Fortify Your Base
  • …Grow Survival Food
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The Infected

84% 👍 OF 7.0K
About This Game

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a Powered Base
  • …Farm Crops and Animals
  • …Adapt to Changing Seasons
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Animallica

70% 👍 OF 909
About This Game

In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Treat Diseased Animals
  • …Build Wildlife Sanctuaries
  • …Travel by Hot-Air Balloon
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Subnautica: Below Zero

90% 👍 OF 108K
About This Game

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …swim straight through a gigantic fish creature that's basically a living tunnel.
  • …pick up and carry penguin babies around.
  • …use a spy penguin robot to slip into tight spaces and bring back resources.
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Miasmata

77% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Your Own Map
  • …Analyze Island Plants
  • …Synthesize Disease Remedies
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How To Survive: Third Person Standalone

57% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Craft Survival Weapons
  • …Hunt, Fish, Forage
  • …Face Faster Night Zombies
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Mist Survival

76% 👍 OF 14K
About This Game

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Shelter From Mist
  • …Recruit Camp Survivors
  • …Build an Electric Base
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Wrongworld

94% 👍 OF 557
About This Game

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Headbutt Trees
  • …Craft Jetpacks and Potions
  • …Build a Furnished Home
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Alchemist's Awakening

73% 👍 OF 497
About This Game

Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.